I am going to do a writeup on the #Freedombox #Debian blend (I've inaccurately calling it a 'spin', heh) for my blog. It's been an interesting year+ with hosting and self-hosting. #Proxmox continues to dominate my personal and work installations.

I also want to do a write up about Netbird, but think I need to mess a little more with HeadScale and Nebula before that. VM backups (like X TB worth) to a server behind a restrictive FW seems to be the hardest part for these mesh/vpns to get and stay working reliably. But overall I already can't imagine my life without Netbird, it's so nice to have a GUI for private network allow/deny rules and just letting go of having to route everything through firewall port forwarding.

I am going to do a writeup on the #Freedombox #Debian blend (I've inaccurately calling it a 'spin', heh) for my blog. It's been an interesting year+ with hosting and self-hosting. #Proxmox continues to dominate my personal and work installations.

I also want to do a write up about Netbird, but think I need to mess a little more with HeadScale and Nebula before that. VM backups (like X TB worth) to a server behind a restrictive FW seems to be the hardest part for these mesh/vpns to get and stay working reliably. But overall I already can't imagine my life without Netbird, it's so nice to have a GUI for private network allow/deny rules and just letting go of having to route everything through firewall port forwarding.

So I saw a blog post linked on here the other week about someone's homelab where they use #Incus to run all their containers and VMs. And I've fallen into the rabbit hole.

That post: https://linderud.dev/blog/personal-infrastructure-setup-2026/

Anyway, Incus is the fork/successor to #LXD which as recently as last year they released #IncusOS which is a very slimmed down OS for running multiple types of containers and VMs. A bit like #Proxmox in a sense.

What I like about the distro:
- Immutable
- A-side/B-side partition layout for friendlier updates
- Requires Secure Boot + TPM, resulting in encrypted drives by default
- ZFS. I've loved ZFS for many years.

It really seems like this was built for edge type deployments where secure "appliance" like things really excel yet still a net benefit elsewhere.

Since vSphere was killed, this feels pretty damn close to what I liked about it.

Can already run VMs along side "System Containers" (shared kernel + init system) and "App Containers" (what everyone calls "Docker"). I see on the roadmap support for MicroVMs (OCI container + individual kernel).

I run all of my stuff bar storage on #k3s on baremetal but there's times when I need a VM or different container behaviour than it offers.

So I saw a blog post linked on here the other week about someone's homelab where they use #Incus to run all their containers and VMs. And I've fallen into the rabbit hole.

That post: https://linderud.dev/blog/personal-infrastructure-setup-2026/

Anyway, Incus is the fork/successor to #LXD which as recently as last year they released #IncusOS which is a very slimmed down OS for running multiple types of containers and VMs. A bit like #Proxmox in a sense.

What I like about the distro:
- Immutable
- A-side/B-side partition layout for friendlier updates
- Requires Secure Boot + TPM, resulting in encrypted drives by default
- ZFS. I've loved ZFS for many years.

It really seems like this was built for edge type deployments where secure "appliance" like things really excel yet still a net benefit elsewhere.

Since vSphere was killed, this feels pretty damn close to what I liked about it.

Can already run VMs along side "System Containers" (shared kernel + init system) and "App Containers" (what everyone calls "Docker"). I see on the roadmap support for MicroVMs (OCI container + individual kernel).

I run all of my stuff bar storage on #k3s on baremetal but there's times when I need a VM or different container behaviour than it offers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByMWPFYbfM4

#VM #benchmark #linux #virtualization #Cockpit #GnomeBoxes #virtualbox #Proxmox #Vagrant #virtmanager #VMware #XCPng

FOSDEM 2026 - The first day is over and I summarized the day...

Like always, I'm attending only the first day which mean the day begins very early in the morning. This year, #Sovereignty was clearly one of the most important topics, but I also had some great talks at the #Proxmox stand, with the guys at Vates ( #XCPng) and of course at the #FreeBSD and #illumos stand. Sadly, they were in the very last corner of the floor hall in building H. Hope they still got enough attention there!

You can find my notes about the first day in my blog post at: https://gyptazy.com/blog/fosdem-2026-opensource-conference-brussels/

#FOSDEM #FOSDEM2026 #opensource #brussels #conference

FOSDEM 2026 - The first day is over and I summarized the day...

Like always, I'm attending only the first day which mean the day begins very early in the morning. This year, #Sovereignty was clearly one of the most important topics, but I also had some great talks at the #Proxmox stand, with the guys at Vates ( #XCPng) and of course at the #FreeBSD and #illumos stand. Sadly, they were in the very last corner of the floor hall in building H. Hope they still got enough attention there!

You can find my notes about the first day in my blog post at: https://gyptazy.com/blog/fosdem-2026-opensource-conference-brussels/

#FOSDEM #FOSDEM2026 #opensource #brussels #conference

It's #FOSDEM time again!

Happy to meet you all again and you can't really miss me! Just poke me - happy about chats!

#RUNBSD, do #opensource, chats about #Proxmox #ProxLB and #PegaProx or anything else like #BoxyBSD or business related content at #credativ!

It's #FOSDEM time again!

Happy to meet you all again and you can't really miss me! Just poke me - happy about chats!

#RUNBSD, do #opensource, chats about #Proxmox #ProxLB and #PegaProx or anything else like #BoxyBSD or business related content at #credativ!

It's #FOSDEM time again!

Happy to meet you all again and you can't really miss me! Just poke me - happy about chats!

#RUNBSD, do #opensource, chats about #Proxmox #ProxLB and #PegaProx or anything else like #BoxyBSD or business related content at #credativ!

Whats your approach for VMs (in #Proxmox or any other hypervisor) with large (1-2TB) Storage needs?

Currently I have an virtual #TrueNAS (with hardware pass-thru) which provides NFS/SMB Mounts for the other VMs. But this is not always possible depending on the hardware.

And creating large vDisks feels wrong.

A cluster-wide snapshot overview and cleanup for all guests in a #Proxmox cluster!

Makes it easy to spot old snapshots at a glance and clean them up before they cause trouble.

My PR was just merged, bringing my #ProxSnap idea into the #PegaProx project.

Really happy to contribute and see this feature become part of such a great tool. Nico, Marcus and Laura are doing great there!

Not aware of project PegaProx? Here you can find more:

Blog post: https://gyptazy.com/blog/pegaprox-real-datacenter-manager-proxmox-clusters/
Release 0.6.2: https://github.com/PegaProx/project-pegaprox/releases/tag/v0.6.2
ProxSnap: https://gyptazy.com/proxsnap/

#PVE #homelab #Prox

#PegaProx as a multi-cluster, node & vm manager for #Proxmox based systems is just around the corner!

PegaProx steps in as a real manager with a feature set that you might already know from enterprise solutions which simplifies and standardizes the management of Proxmox based infrastructures.

Each capability focuses on reducing operational complexity while giving operators full control over clusters, nodes, storage, and virtual machines like:

• Unified Multi Cluster Management
• Node and Cluster Monitoring
• User & Group Management
• Semi-automated Node Security Patch Management
• Cross Cluster Migration
• Virtual Machine & Container Management
• CPU Alignment over Nodes for safe VM live-migrations
• Intelligent Load Balancing for VMs
• Intelligent Load Balancing for Storage
• High Availability and Failover
• User-, Group- & Tenancy Management
• And much more...

Instead of just providing and visualizing metrics you can finally completely manage the whole stack: Creating VMs, adding storage, maintenances, PVE node patch management, DRS alike balancing by #ProxLB, CPU compatibility mode for VMs across all nodes (like #ProxCLMC), Tenant support, API and much more!

This will become a game changer for Proxmox users - especially in enterprises which adds all the often requested but missing functions!

You can already find my first insights about it in my blog post: https://gyptazy.com/blog/pegaprox-real-datacenter-manager-proxmox-clusters/

#PVE #enterprise #virtualization #management #python #ProxmoxVE #opensource #ProxLB #ProxCLMC #ProxSnap

2/mehr

Im nächsten Schritt wird #VMware rausgeschmissen und durch die Open-Source-Lösung #proxmox ersetzt, die in Österreich entwickelt wurde.

Paradoxerweise spielt sich das alles in 1em ÖVP-geführten Ministerium ab. Der zuständige Staatssekrär für Digitales - ebenfalls ÖVP- hat // dazu mit EU-Kommissarin Henna Virkkunen [EPP] eine EU-Resolution zur digitalen Souveränität durchgesetzt.

https://www.golem.de/news/abschied-von-microsoft-und-vmware-oesterreichs-roadmap-zur-digitalen-souveraenitaet-2601-204331-2.html

#Di_day #digitalesouveränität #DiD

I really love to see #Sylve in #FreeBSD allowing us to define CPU pinning with #bhyve! That's a missing piece in other "major" solutions... Well done!

#virtualization #proxmox #opensource #alternatives

Nach Drohungen aus Washington: Frankreich, Polen und Deutschland starten Planungen für den Fall einer US-Übernahme von Grönland

https://www.tagesspiegel.de/internationales/nach-drohungen-aus-washington-frankreich-polen-und-deutschland-starten-planungen-fur-us-ubernahme-von-gronland-15110742.html

Und das solltet Ihr auch tun. Der Zugang zur Cloud kann in einer Woche gesperrt werden.

Betreibt Eure private Cloud. Nehmt #opendesk

#google #gcp #aws #azure #ms365

#defcon2 @SCS #proxmox #kubernetes

Nach Drohungen aus Washington: Frankreich, Polen und Deutschland starten Planungen für den Fall einer US-Übernahme von Grönland

https://www.tagesspiegel.de/internationales/nach-drohungen-aus-washington-frankreich-polen-und-deutschland-starten-planungen-fur-us-ubernahme-von-gronland-15110742.html

Und das solltet Ihr auch tun. Der Zugang zur Cloud kann in einer Woche gesperrt werden.

Betreibt Eure private Cloud. Nehmt #opendesk

#google #gcp #aws #azure #ms365

#defcon2 @SCS #proxmox #kubernetes

Why rent computers when you can build the cloud at home? Say no to big tech and seize the means of computing the future :3
#SelfHosting #HomeLab #Linux #ArchLinux #Proxmox #SysAdmin #OpenSource #FOSS #Jellyfin #FishShell #Tech

Why rent computers when you can build the cloud at home? Say no to big tech and seize the means of computing the future :3
#SelfHosting #HomeLab #Linux #ArchLinux #Proxmox #SysAdmin #OpenSource #FOSS #Jellyfin #FishShell #Tech

@Rutrapio thanks! Previously I ran #Proxmox (so proper VMs), but this time I opted for a lighter weight approach with pure docker compose setups for everything. The OS doesn't matter all that much then and #Debian is a stable and "pure" option.